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expatriate

[eks-pey-tree-eyt, -pa-tree-, eks-pey-tree-it, -eyt, -pa-tree-] / ɛksˈpeɪ triˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri-, ɛksˈpeɪ tri ɪt, -ˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri- /
NOUN
person who lives outside their country
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NOUN
person forced out of their country
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However Gilpin believes that the history of the Six Nations and its ability to connect with expatriate fans in the United States could be a useful tool to crack America further.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The closest it has come to playing an international match was when representative teams faced a Solomon Islands expatriate team in 1994 and a refugee side in 2014.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

The embassy in Tehran usually counts around 30 expatriate employees, as well as a few dozen local staff members.

From Barron's Jan. 12, 2026

The club had been largely an expatriate German club that also had Jewish members.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

In Brazilian terms, it was like abandoning a glamorous expatriate life in Paris to come back to Chicago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The building is in Himbi, a residential neighbourhood of Goma on the shores of Lake Kivu where many expatriates, staff members and headquarters of humanitarian organisations are based.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

Without normal flights or embassy help, expatriates are finding their own options.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

Since 2008, the U.S. has required expatriates with assets above $2 million pay a steep “exit tax” on the appreciation of all their property.

From Salon Jan. 23, 2026

Several hours later, she was one of hundreds of Venezuelan expatriates and Venezuelan Americans who gathered in the Miami suburb of Doral - the hub of South Florida's Venezuelan community - to celebrate.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2026

The author Julian Mayfield seemed to be the leader of Ghana’s little colony of Afro-American expatriates.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The story follows a Russian writer named M, who has expatriated to someplace in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

The following year, an appraiser Ver hired to value his companies asked him in an email to provide the number of Bitcoins he owned when he expatriated.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

Along with his second wife, Shirley Graham, Du Bois expatriated to Ghana in his final years, where he joined an ensemble of Pan-Africanists dedicated to President Kwame Nkrumah’s extraordinary experiment in postcolonial nation-building.

From Washington Post Apr. 6, 2023

In London in the 1950s, Soros was a student of the expatriated Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, who championed the notion of an “open society,” in which individual liberty, pluralism and free inquiry prevailed.

From New York Times Jul. 17, 2018

A person who has been expatriated loses Japanese nationality.

From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga

Not too long ago, I was speaking with a friend who recently left journalism for much more lucrative pastures, and who is seriously thinking about expatriating from the United States.

From Seattle Times Jul. 24, 2023

As if we needed another reason to dream longingly of expatriating.

From Slate Jul. 3, 2018

He did this by expatriating money using mirror trades.

From The New Yorker Aug. 22, 2016

Nobuoka also said she thinks about expatriating but still hopes the country will change.

From Washington Post Jul. 18, 2016

He had asked for it, because he did not wish to have the appearance of expatriating himself; for as the service was then conducted, such a post involved no duties and brought in no returns.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury




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